Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> I think you are trying to be too sophisticated here (and this is
> always asking for trouble). The "help environment" pages of gnuplot
> suggests that the shell functionality honors the SHELL environment
> variable (and indeed the code in command.c seems to do just that).

I agree that simplest is best, but you do agree that enabling LyX
documents to carry gnuplot-script viruses would be a bad thing?

> However I did not manage to make this work...

> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> gnuplot> !echo hello
> hello
> !

Does this not mean that you're using /bin/echo rather than the echo
built into bash?

-- 
Angus

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